Reason #4 to Fix Our Democracy - To enact a healthcare system whereby we the people can receive high quality health care at the lowest system-wide cost

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**NOTES:**Congressional Budget Office, Working Paper 2020-08, December 2020, How CBO Analyzes the Costs of Proposals for Single-Payer Health Care Systems That Are Based on Medicare’s Fee-for-Service Program Link: https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2020-12/56811-Single-Payer.pdf (See pages 121 and 122.)

Congressional Budget Office, Working Paper 2020-08, December 2020 Exhibit 11-1, p. 121, National Health Expenditures Under Current Law and CBO’s Illustrative Single-Payer Options, 2030. Link: https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2020-12/56811-Single-Payer.pdf

Health Affairs Blog, 2021-2-16, Doctors Adam Gaffney, David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler, Congressional Budget Office Scores Medicare-For-All: Universal Coverage For Less Spending. Link:
https://pnhp.org/news/congressional-budget-office-scores-medicare-for-all-universal-coverage-for-less-spending/
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, May 16, 2023 - U.S. Uninsured Rate Dropped 18% During Pandemic. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2023/202305.htm - ::text=Highlights from the report include,or 3.7 million in 2019.
The Commonwealth Fund, Surveys, September 29th, 2022. The State of US Health Insurance in 2022. https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2022/sep/state-us-health-insurance-2022-biennial-survey - ::text=Forty-three percent of working,to health care (23%25).
US Census Bureau, Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2021
Written by: Katherine Keisler-Starkey and Lisa N. Bunch, Report Number P60-278, Dated: September 13, 2022 Link: https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2022/demo/p60-278.html

2021-3-11 Health Affairs Blog - Medicare Advantage For All? Not So Fast, Exhibit 1: Medicare Advantage enrollment rates over time. Link: https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20210304.136304/full/

Dr. Ana Malinow, MD Past President of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) video presentation explaining Direct Contract Entities.
Link: https://pnhp.org/direct-contracting-entities-handing-traditional-medicare-to-wall-street

2021-9-29 Health Affairs Blog, Gilfillan and Berwick - Medicare Advantage, Direct Contracting, And The Medicare ‘Money Machine,’ Part 1: The Risk-Score Game, How the “MA Money Machine Works.” Link: https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20210927.6239/full/

2021-9-30 Health Affairs Blog, Gilfillan and Berwick - Medicare Advantage, Direct Contracting, And The Medicare ‘Money Machine,’ Part 2: Link: https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/medicare-advantage-direct-contracting-and-medicare-money-machine-part-2-building-aco

2021-8-17 Kaiser Family Foundation - Higher and Faster Growing Spending Per Medicare Advantage Enrollee Adds to Medicare’s Solvency and Affordability Challenges. Findings-Spending per person. Link: https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/higher-and-faster-growing-spending-per-medicare-advantage-enrollee-adds-to-medicares-solvency-and-affordability-challenges/

2021-3-11 Health Affairs Blog - Medicare Advantage For All? Not So Fast, Exhibit 4: Medicare per beneficiary growth rate. Link: https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20210304.136304/full/

2021-8-17 Kaiser Family Foundation - Higher and Faster Growing Spending Per Medicare Advantage Enrollee Adds to Medicare’s Solvency and Affordability Challenges. - Conclusion. Link: https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/higher-and-faster-growing-spending-per-medicare-advantage-enrollee-adds-to-medicares-solvency-and-affordability-challenges/